I would guess it's around 550PPD, that's about what I was getting with my x1950pro. I stopped using it, because I get a lot more ppd using the SMP client. As for playing games, I wouldn't. I would also make sure you're only running a single threaded cpu client along with the gpu client. The gpu client needs to communicate with the cpu, so one of the cores needs to be free to do that. The gpu client doesn't take a low priority, it uses the gpu in full and that doesn't change, so you need to stop it before you launch a 3d intensive app.

Thanks for the info. So I won't GPU fold when I play games. And yes, I think I'm running a single threaded CPU console. When it's by itself, it uses 50% of the CPU. The GPU client uses the other 50%, so it's at full load all the time.

You can run the SMP client on a P4 with HT and it will double your PPD.

Avi

But you still run one SMP on a dual processor, yes?

I wish I would have heard back from Avi_Dan.

Sorry I have been working like crazy this days and I havent kept up with the posts here.

I posted this info some time ago:

avi_dan wrote:

cd8uk wrote:

avi_dan,

minor off topic: are you personally running purely the linux smps? I'm running purely the xp smps and we seem to be trading places a lot recently on the 'leader board' and just wondered if we could clarify (for the benefit of the team of course!) whether [email protected] is better or not than [email protected]?

When you compare the III and IV they are only about 20% apart performance-wise despite the doubling of MHz.

I'll try to switch to SMP probably this weekend, and start to OC as well. My CPU HS needs soem grinding down so I can turn it 90 degrees, then I can install the Noctua NB HS.

I have an ATI X1950GT as well, haven't been able to get it to fold with 7.2 or 7.3 catalyst drivers. Will uninstall and install again, because obvously there's nothing more productive to do under Windows than to try even different order and combinations of install in order to get stuff to work correctly.

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I highly recommend runing the SMP client instead of two (or even four) normal clients.

I am not overclocking any of the machines and I tend to believe that a lot of the instability people are experiencing with the SMP client is related to overclocking.

My pentium III did a 33% OC for many years without ever missing a beat. But many of today's OCers are OCing everything, whereas I only used to OC my cpu, not the board or the memory. There's no reason you can't take an E4300 on a P965 board and setup everything as a FSB of 266, like an E6xxx cpu.

I think a good portion of the problems have to do with inadequate/junk power supplies and OCing memory, which results in gains too small to be worth the risk.

With AMD processors you need to understand and adjust all the parameters, not just increase the frequency, a guaranteed way to fail.

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looks like a bunch of my computers got shut down already....not sure if i wanna go install the clients again. My main machine has been out of commission for over a week, hopefully once I move I'll begin to fold again, just need to know how to adjust vcore in linux.

I used to run dnetc a long time ago on all of my machines when I lived in an all bills paid apartment. Cooling, power consumption and noise weren't a factor back then. However, now that I am in a house, I find that my computer room is usually a few degrees warmer than the rest of the house with just 2 pc's powered on and not folding.

As much as I'd love to get into folding, I don't see how I can manage to keep the room cool enough in the summer to handle the extra heat. I know it's for a good cause and at the risk of sounding selfish, I'm really not all eager to see the higher utility bills from pegged cpu usage and extra a/c cooling to keep the house cool.

Already doing that on both my AM2 systems but it's not an option on my Northwood based Dell machines or my Socket-A machine. Even with all these machines undervolted, I'd still be consuming a good 350+ watts while folding and that's sure to make the room an oven.

Folding on machines with inefficient CPUs isn't good for your wallet or the planet. an aggressively undervolted AM2 PC should stay below 65W at full load,the X2 3600 is crazy cheap in USA if you feel like replacing the old rigs. 4x65=260.

Already doing that on both my AM2 systems but it's not an option on my Northwood based Dell machines or my Socket-A machine. Even with all these machines undervolted, I'd still be consuming a good 350+ watts while folding and that's sure to make the room an oven.

350W over how many machines? under full load, my opteron system is only consuming 110W at the wall, then again, I'm not really underclocking, just undervolting...i could probably do more.

350W over how many machines? under full load, my opteron system is only consuming 110W at the wall, then again, I'm not really underclocking, just undervolting...i could probably do more.

Over 3 machines, x2 3800, Northwood 2.66, A64 3200+.

Jaganath - good point on using efficient cpu's. My x2 3800+ oc'd to 2.5ghz is estimated to put out 1021PPD (using FahMon) while my 2 older P4's at work only put out 130PPD combined. That's a pretty huge difference!

Edit - Interesting find - decided to test 2 servers (hp dl585 w/ 4x Opty 885 procs) and found them to be churning out 2k ppd on GBGromacs WUs and 1190ppd on regular Gromcas WUs. Power consumption went from 500watts idle to 700watts under load.

Soon as my college course is over and I'm earning once again, I'll be upping my spec to an Athlon64 X2 and popping in a new GFX card so I'll be punting out a few extra WUs from then on (quietly, of course!).

My friend has the client running in his labs under my ID as well - not sure what he's got it running on but, of the 178 WUs completed, only 28 are off this machine in front of me!

Well it is probably the "luck of the draw" on which project he gets, and/or he actually uses the computer sometimes?

Well I've been drawing lousy cards for quite some time (some WUs under 200 points. ), so now that I found the time and the patience (it was nowhere as easy to install as plain Jane FAH) I started running SMP on my Core 2 Duo (E6400).

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looks like a bunch of my computers got shut down already....not sure if i wanna go install the clients again. My main machine has been out of commission for over a week, hopefully once I move I'll begin to fold again, just need to know how to adjust vcore in linux.

I woke up Tuesday morning and the PCs were off and the clocks were blinking.

Then I came home after work and found the exact same thing.

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aristide1, when you mention that you are hitting a checkpoint every 6 minutes, do you mean that you are going through one percent every 6 minutes, or is it something else? Also, to finish a work unit in 10 hours is pretty fast, what hardware are you running it on? Sorry if you've mentioned it elsewhere--no time to search right now.

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